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A. GYLPH- MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.

No. 485,932. Patented Nov. 8, 1892.

l N VE N TOR WITNESSES A TTORNEYS.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALEXANDER GYLFE, OF SOUTH. BEND, WASHINGTON, ASSIGNOR TO HIMSELF ANDLEWIS N. EKLUND, OF SAME PLACE.

MUSICAL INSTRUMENT.

SPECIFICATION rorming part of Letters Patent No. 485,932, dated November8, 1892 Application filed April 27,1892. Serial No. 430,853. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER GYLFE, of South Bend, in the county ofPacific and State of \Vashington, have invented a new and ImprovedMusical Instrument, of which the following is a full, clear, and exactdescription.

The invention relates to stringed musical instruments, such as violins,guitars, &c.; and its object is to provide a new and improved to musicalinstrument which is simple and durable in construction and arranged toproduce a full, sweet, and soft tone when played.

The invention consists of certain parts and details and combinations ofthe same, as will I5 be hereinafter described, and then pointed out inthe claim.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings, forminga part ofthis specification, in which similar letters of reference indicatecorresponding parts in all the figures.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of the improvement with parts in section.Fig. 2 is an inverted plan view of the sounding-board; and Fig. 3 is aside elevation, with parts in section, of a modified form of theimprovement.

The improved musical instrument is pro- Vided with a sounding-board A,located in the body part B of the instrument between the belly O and theback D, the edges of the said sounding-board conforming to theconfiguration of the sides E of the body part and secured thereto. Thesounding-board A is preferably provided with a transversestrengthing-rib a on its under side. The neck, head,

strings, bridge, and tail-piece of the instrument are the same as inthose of ordinary construction. \Vhen the sounding-board A is madesolid, as shown in Figs. 1 and 2, then both the belly O and the back Dare provided with the usual S-shaped sounding-holes F and G,respectively; but, if desired, soundingholes H may be formed in thesounding-board A, as shown in full lines in Fig. 3 and in dotted linesin Fig. 2. In the latter case the sounding-holes G in the back D areomitted 5 and only those in the belly O are retained. By placing such asounding-board A into the body part of the instrument the sound of theinstrument is greatly increased and at the same time is sweeter andsofter when the in- 0 strument is played.

Sounding-posts I connect the soundingboard A with the belly O, and likeposts I extend from the back D to the soundingboard, as plainly shown inthe drawings.

Having thus fully described my invention,

1 claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-- In a musicalinstrument of the class described, the combination therewith of thesounding-board A, provided with the transverse strengthening-rib a andthe soundingholes H and arranged between the belly and back of theinstrument and attached at its edges to the sides thereof, and thesoundingposts I 1' between the said board and the belly and back of theinstrument, substantially as shown and described.

ALEXANDER GYLFE.

Witnesses:

G. KIVLEY, N. O. EKLUND.

